Healing Conversations Across Dangerous Divides: Mónica Guzmán

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Mónica Guzmán is the loving liberal daughter of Mexican immigrants who strongly support Donald Trump. We hear her warm personal story of how Mónica set out to understand what divides America and discovered ways to overcome divisions that hurt our relationships and society. In this episode of "Let's Find Common Ground", we discuss ways to use our own sense of curiosity to have rewarding cross-partisan conversations with colleagues, friends, and family. Mónica Guzmán is the author of the new book, "I Never Thought Of It That Way". She serves as an advisor to the depolarization organization, Braver Angels. Our interview shows listeners how to cross boundaries and find common ground with others from different viewpoints and life experiences.

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0:00.0	When you're fuming at a friend or relative over their political views,
0:03.5	it could be hard to keep your cool.
0:06.3	You want to tell them all the ways they're wrong and you're right.
0:10.4	But this approach doesn't usually work out that well.
0:14.4	Our guest today says curiosity about the other person
0:18.8	is key to understanding them better and finding a way to connect.
0:23.4	This is Let's Find Common Ground. I'm Richard Davies.
0:31.7	And I'm Ashley Melntite. In this episode of Let's Find Common Ground,
0:35.3	we discuss ways to use our own sense of curiosity
0:38.5	to have cross-partisan conversations.
0:41.5	Our guest is Monica Guzman, author of the new book.
0:45.6	I never thought of it that way.
0:48.3	She's also director of storytelling at Brave Her Angels
0:51.2	and Organization working to depolarize America.
0:54.9	And before she became a professional depolarizer,
0:58.8	Monica had personal experience of seeing the world
1:02.7	through other people's eyes.
1:05.2	Ashley starts our conversation.
1:08.0	You have lived for several years
1:10.6	in a rather famously liberal city, Seattle,
1:13.5	and you're on the left yourself.
1:15.0	So what first got you interested in seeing the world
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